Palaeofavosites mirus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PaleofavositesPBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At most 4.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 438.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 0 of 5 occurrencesSilurian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesSilurian443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.6 Mya438.3 Mya

5 occurrences of Palaeofavosites mirus on record, most of them in the Silurian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

5 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Tamsalu — 58.91°N, 23.47°ETamsalu — 58.84°N, 23.06°E

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The named rock units Palaeofavosites mirus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeofavosites mirus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Palaeofavosites mirus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Palaeofavosites mirus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Palaeofavosites mirus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeofavosites mirus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPaleofavosites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1951